hour

英[ˈaʊə(r)]美[ˈaʊər]

n.小时，钟头，时间，时刻，固定时间，课时；

复数：hours;

例句

She lay down for half an hour.她休息了半小时。

I've been waiting for the bus for half an hour.我等车已等了半个小时了。

I'll ring you back in about half an hour.我大约在半小时后给你回电话。

The children came in an hour ago from their long walk,and now they’re in the dining-room eating their heads off.孩子们走了很长的路,一小时前刚到,现在正在餐厅里大吃呢。

He tied up the phone for an hour.他占用电话一个小时。

She rang up about an hour ago.她约在一小时前打过电话。

He met with the Prime Minister of Japan for an hour.他和日本首相会见了一个小时。

The committee kicked your suggestion about for over an hour before deciding that they could not accept it.委员们谈论了一个多小时才决定不能采纳你的建议。

I did a two-hour workout in the gym.我在健身房锻炼了两个小时。

If we keep on our way for another hour, we should reach the village.如果再继续向前走一小时, 我们就到那个村子了。

词组

all hours

keep late (或regular) hours

on the hour

within the hour

英语四级真题

Zircle reported the attack when she arrived in Nulato, Alaska, in the early hours of the morning.

On February 14th, the self-driving car, travelling at 2 miles per hour, pulled out in front of a public bus going 15 miles per hour.

Subjects who learned the games in the morning lost some skills when they played again 12 hours later.

Rewards can be flexible working hours.

They want to go to bed on regular hours.

That was nothing though, compared to Germans, Italians, and the French, who stayed up around an hour and a half later on various days throughout the summer to watch the Cup.

Russians also get up an hour later on International Women's Day, the day for treating and celebrating female relatives.

Clock-timers organize their day by blocks of minutes and hours.

He was trapped under a beam about 10 feet below the surface for nearly an hour and a half.

How do you stay focused through the entire hour?

It had to be 30 to 40 miles an hour.

It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.

One of the press operators arrived an hour and a half late.

Twenty pounds an hour, and the instructor says I'll need about30 to 40 lessons in total.

英语六级真题

The summer after 7th grade, students spend three weeks on a college campus studying advanced math for seven hours a day.

In these groups, which came out of an Eastern European tradition of developing young talent, professors teach promising K-12 students advanced mathematics for several hours after school or on weekends.

What a waste of money! In return for an average of ~44,000 of debt, students get an average of only 14 hours of lecture and tutorial time a week in Britain.

They slept six hours a night or less.

The practice of clocking in for an eight-hour workday is a leftover from the days of the Industrial Revolution, as reflected in the then-popular saying, Eight hours labor, eight hours recreation, eight hours rest.

The conditions creating the stress are long hours, unrealistic demands and deadlines, and work-life conflict.

Less than an hour away by snowmobile, Chinese labourers have updated the Great Wall Station, a vital part of China's plan to operate five bases on Antarctica, complete with an indoor badminton court and sleeping quarters for 150 people.

And 29%, the invisible risk group, scored high on three in particular: They spent five hours a day or more on electronic devices.

Americans are working longer and harder hours than ever before.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

83% of workers say they're stressed about their jobs, nearly 50% say work-related stress is interfering with their sleep, and 60% use their smartphones to check in with work outside of normal working hours.

8 hours at work daily, and the majority of working professionals spend additional hours checking in with work during evenings, weekends and even vacations.

on average, only 12 to 14 hours a week studying and many were skating through their semesters without doing a significant amount of reading and writing.

Located only a few hours apart, The University of Tennessee and Tennessee State are worth comparing.

Given the high price of room and board and the closeness of the school to his family, he chose to live at home and worked between 30 and 40 hours a week while taking a full class schedule.

According to Harry Vallentine, a Canadian engineer who is researching modern steam technology, a special tank measuring 2 by 10 metres could store over 750 kilowatt hours of energy as high pressure steam, enough to pull a two-cart train for an hour or so.

After six months, the employees who participated in ROWE reported reduced work-family conflict and a better sense of control of their time, and they were getting a full hour of extra sleep each night.

Other studies have found that even infants in East Asia sleep about an hour less than European infants, so we're trying to figure out how culture shapes the way you sleep.

We're still in the exploratory stages of this project, although what's noteworthy is that East Asians on average sleep about an hour and half less each night than North Americans do.

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

N-COUNT

小时

An hour is a period of sixty minutes.

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N-PLURAL

长时间

People say that something takes or lasts hours to emphasize that it takes or lasts a very long time, or what seems like a very long time.

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N-SING

（时钟的）钟点，整点

A clock that strikes the hour strikes when it is exactly one o'clock, two o'clock, and so on.

N-SING

时间;时刻

You can refer to a particular time or moment as a particular hour .

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N-COUNT

（人一生中的某个）时候，时期

If you refer, for example, to someone's hour of need or hour of happiness, you are referring to the time in their life when they are or were experiencing that condition or feeling.

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N-PLURAL

（每天发生或进行某事的）特定时间，固定时间

You can refer to the period of time during which something happens or operates each day as the hours during which it happens or operates.

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N-PLURAL

（每周的）工作时间

If you refer to the hours involved in a job, you are talking about how long you spend each week doing it and when you do it.

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PHRASE

下班后;营业（或办公、学习）时间以后

If you do something after hours, you do it outside normal business hours or the time when you are usually at work.

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PHRASE

在（某一时段的）任何时刻

If you say that something happens at all hours of the day or night, you disapprove of it happening at the time that it does or as often as it does.

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PHRASE

在凌晨;在下半夜

If something happens in the early hours or in the small hours, it happens in the early morning after midnight.

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PHRASE

长时间地;不停地

If you say that someone does something hour after hour, you are emphasizing that they do it continually for a long time.

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PHRASE

整点地

If something happens on the hour, it happens every hour at, for example, nine o'clock, ten o'clock, and so on, and not at any number of minutes past an hour.

PHRASE

整点差…分/ 整点过…分

If you want to state the time exactly, you can give a number of minutes followed by before the hour or past the hour .

PHRASE

在通常营业（或工作、学习）时间之外

Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.

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英汉词典释义

n.

小时

一小时的时间或行程

不确定的一段时间, 某一时刻

固定时间, 上班时间

重要时刻

正点

英英词典释义

Noun

1. a period of time equal to 1/24th of a day;

2. clock time;

3. a special and memorable period;

4. distance measured by the time taken to cover it;